Georgetown County is considering creating a new zoning district to assure locals that area golf courses won’t be closed and turned into high-density developments.
It’s called a neighborhood amenity district, and the new zoning category will allow for golf courses, open spaces, recreation uses, parks or gardens. The new zoning district would pertain to Pawleys Island’s Litchfield Country Club and Founders Club, which many county residents have long worried could be re-developed despite the owner of the two golf courses having no plans to close them.
The two courses are some of the oldest along the Grand Strand. Both opened in the 1960s before Georgetown County adopted zoning policies in the 1970s…